Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love.
The Way #1
Josemaria Escriva
The need to struggle keeps us humble because it reminds us that holiness is not something we achieve once.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Jesus saw something very different. What attracted his attention was not the size of the gift.
How pleasant it is when a friend comes to us in the midst of some difficulty and says: You can count on me!
Before we had done anything to deserve his love, God created us, called us into friendship with himself
"Lukewarmness dims the soul's witness; rekindle zeal, love, and daily interior life."
Lukewarmness is a disease of the soul that affects both the intellect and the will.
St. Thomas Aquinas describes it as the virtue that disposes us to undertake great things worthy of honour
The role of the laity in the Church is to sanctify the temporal order from within.
Nothing exists independently of God. The universe did not simply receive its existence from him
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
He asked him a surprising question: Do you want to be healed?
It is necessary for one to know, to hope and to struggle with persevering patience, realising that this is what pleases God.
Jesus saw him and knew that he had been there a long time.